Urooj (2018)

Urooj is the title for Samar’s five-(plus one)-track debut album. The word, 'Urooj' translates to 'ascension, rise' and describes the event of rising from obscurity to the high of individual existence. The album hopes to symbolize as well as push towards a time in Indian musical and artistic expression where it fearlessly tussles to gain higher societal relevance and balloon out of the much restricted package that had kept it reduced as sideline entertainment for decades. Beyond its face value, Urooj is essentially based on existentialism and attempts to throw light on the possibility of an alternate way of life that can emerge out of one’s introspection on the question, “what truly gives meaning to your life?”.